NOUNS

Words that name people, places and things are called nouns. The following lists a variety of nouns.

EXAMPLES OF NOUNS

PEOPLE        : Teacher, girls, boys

PLACES        : province, lake, west sumatra

THINGS        :           ANIMALS                : dog, cat, hen

OBJECTS                  : motorcycle, car, television

SUBSTANCES         : iron, air, gold

ACTIONS                  : (a) race, (the) dance, (the) hits

MEASURES : kilogram, centimeter, day

QUALITIES: happiness honesty beauty

Nouns can be found anywhere in a sentence, and most sentences contain several nouns. One way to find nouns is to look for the little words a, an, the. The naming word that comes after them is probably a noun. Sometimes nouns appear without these little words, but you can usually insert them without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Example:

Paul and his children visited the continent of Africa and saw some lions.

Description:

·         Paul is a noun that names a person.

·         Children name people nouns in this

·         Continent names a thing picture?

·         Africa names a place

·         Lions name a thing.